Re: [GIT PULL 00/25] LightNVM updates for 4.16

[Matias BjÃrling]

On 01/05/2018 04:50 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 05 2018, Matias Bjørling wrote:
> > Hi Jens,
> >
> > Here is a couple of patches for 4.16.
> >
> > This patchset prepares the lightnvm and pblk source code for the 2.0
> > specification release. The specification is close to its final
> > revision. After these changes, 2.0 support is a quick drop.
> >
> > While adopting 2.0 specification, the rrpc and null_blk
> > implementation had to go. rrpc used the deprecated device-side
> > table mapping table API for the 1.2 specification, and there are
> > no users of it. Similarly, null_blk has not worked with pblk for
> > a while.
> >
> > Javier and Hans have been hard at work at fixing up bugs in pblk,
> > especially concerning synchronization points between user I/O and GC
> > I/O. While also fixing bugs that occurred on bringup/bringdown.
> >
> > They also added support for iostats and added an option to add
> > support for defining the amount of over-provisioning an instance
> > should have.
>
> Apart from the minor comment on one of the later patches, looks fine to
> me. Applied for 4.16.

Thanks Jens.